Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Laurence Sterne

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
Jonathan Carroll

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do something stupid like that and it can make the whole country look bad.
Marvin Hagler

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
Viola Davis

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Bryant H. McGill

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Marianne Williamson

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis de Sade

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson